Last Supper painting
Does anyone know anything about a Last Supper painting with Jesus, the 12 disciples, and a woman named Joanna? The painting is around 70 or 80 years old. I have never seen one like it before.
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I'm not familiar with that one. Where did you see it or hear about it? Do have have a link for it?
The Joanna in the painting would have been Joanna wife of Chuza, who was one of the women mentioned as followers of Jesus (Luke 8:3).
I did find an article that references ancient Last Supper paintings with women and children included, housed at the Louvre and the Vatican: http://www.kyria.com/topics/spiritualformation/biblestudyanddevotions/womenlastsupper.html
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An elderly woman at church had the painting and donated the painting to the church. The names of the people in the Last Supper painting are printed towards the bottom of the painting in what is probably Latin. The woman's name is spelled Joannes which I think is the Latin Vulgate's spelling for Joanna in English. I have tried Logos 4 searches and Internet searches, but I cannot find where this Last Supper painting originally came from.
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Can you take a photograph of it and post it here?
If it is only 70-80 years old, it might have just been done by an unknown artist so there might be no record of it on the Internet. But the style of the painting might help determine if it's meant to be a copy of another older one. I'm not an art historian, but I recognized an unfamiliar Monet by his style when I saw it. So maybe seeing the image will trigger something for me; who knows. [:)] Or maybe there's someone on these forums who knows more about art who would recognize it.
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Does Joannes definitely refer to the woman? Is is it not just the Latin version of John?
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Jonathan Pitts said:
Does Joannes definitely refer to the woman? Is is it not just the Latin version of John?
It is. And John frequently looks a bit like a woman on Last Supper paintings. As was exploited by The Da Vinci Code:
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This website has an amazing collection of biblical art work. Their Last Supper resources are linked below:
http://www.biblical-art.com/biblicalsubject.asp?id_biblicalsubject=523&pagenum=1
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Ted Weis said:
This website has an amazing collection of biblical art work. Their Last Supper resources are linked below:
http://www.biblical-art.com/biblicalsubject.asp?id_biblicalsubject=523&pagenum=1
These are some other great websites with repositories of biblical art work.
- http://www.textweek.com/art/art.htm
- http://www.artbible.info/
- http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-search.pl
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I am sorry for my mistake. I looked at the Last Supper picture again today and I realized I counted wrong. The painting only has Jesus and His Twelve disciples with two that look like women without beards. I will attach the picture. Thanks for your comments and help.
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Richard Milbrandt said:
I am sorry for my mistake. I looked at the Last Supper picture again today and I realized I counted wrong. The painting only has Jesus and His Twelve disciples with two that look like women without beards. I will attach the picture. Thanks for your comments and help.
This is a rendering of Da Vinci's version, similar but altered probably for the artists sensibilities.
-Dan
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Artbible.net offers a huge variety of classic Bible art, organized by topic and then by century
Freechristimages.org has a limited, but superior resolution quality images. I've purchased their Jesus collection of 500+ images and found it excellent. One thing I've learned -- not all images on the internet are the same quality.
Googleartproject.com provides outstanding images. Some are Bible oriented, but most are not.
ABCgallery.com, known also as Olga's Gallery, has a large database of classic art.
If there's one Logos product I think many would benefit from, it's a collection of high quality images from classic art that illustrates biblical stories. Utilizing art in preaching and teaching appeals to the right brain and has great impact on the congregation.
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Ted Weis said:
If there's one Logos product I think many would benefit from, it's a collection of high quality images from classic art that illustrates biblical stories. Utilizing art in preaching and teaching appeals to the right brain and has great impact on the congregation.
Could email Logos product suggestions => http://www.logos.com/about/contact with reference to this thread plus idea of adding art collection images.
Wonder if Bible Colleges and Seminaries would allow image publication of their collections ?
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